It's a worst-case scenario for most employees: There's someone in China who can do your job quickly, efficiently and for about one-fifth of your salary, and your boss absolutely loves his work.

But one U.S. software developer turned this nightmare on its head and actually benefited from outsourcing, a report says. That's because, unbeknownst to his bosses, he hired a Chinese developer to do his job, allowing him to take home impeccable performance reviews while actually spending the day watching cat videos and shopping on EBay.

I have had a full time job making near or above six digits since 1975. I don't have to outsource my math skills to know that that is 38 years in March. I can't outsource my job as I sit in the pointy end of an aluminum tube and cart ever fatter humans around from point A to point B... but if I could, I would. I've watched over the years as this country has become the land of the non-working living off the working. I've been in the latter category for long enough. My feeling now is "If you can't beat 'em join 'em." Now, all I need to find an guy from Asia who is 6'4", pudgy, balding and with a cranky attitude to "be" me. I am accepting resumes at crankyoldwhiteguy@badattitude... : )

This is the epitome of selfishness. The ultimate flower of Reaganomics and all the evil that Era spawned for 30 years.

There is a point where popular buzzwords like "efficiency" and "excellence" has to take a back seat to Doing What Is Right. That means there is *NO* Comparative Advantage opportunity out there worth destroying the social fabric over!

If China can do consumer electronics and programming better, it's because we spent the last 30 years moving vast amounts of capital and talent over there to help them achieve it. The reason that was done was to take advantage of the "business-friendly" atmosphere and oversupply of docile cheap labor.

How's sucking up to Wall Street and giving business everything they wanted for 30 years worked out for ya lately??? That disgusting pro-business pro-Wall Street morality begat twits like this one who offshored his job to China. He should get a taste of being on unemployment and seeing his years of training mean absolutely nothing as he is given a job reference to hold up a We Buy Gold or Five Dollar Pizza! sign on a sidewalk.

Does anyone remember in math class when they said to "show your work"? Yea not a smart idea to do what this guy did for any extended time. When your boss approaches you to say GREAT WORK how'd ya do it?! You're gonna be sweating bullets.

As you can hardly blame somebody else for a screw-up that you submit in the limited described scenario, I'd have to go over everything they did with a fine-toothed comb anyway...so I might as well do the work myself.

The described scenario would be impossible to believe, by the way, except for the fact that countries in that area rig their currency exchange rates with the dollar. That ensures they'll always have competitive primacy...and our top-echelon political and corporate leaders are loving the money they harvest by using the resulting cheaper labor instead of American labor too much to care about the fact that the consequence is America decays under us all.

Home renovations are different. The homeowner doesn't care if you do it or got someone else to do it as long as we stick to the nagreed price.

My line of work is software and hardware design. If you signed a non-disclosure agreement, then getting a non-employee involved in doing your work means you've violated the agreement and you can lose your job.

no it isn't. The company is paying the same salary they would have paid anyway. But on the other hand, now that company knows he's not the real talent behind his work, they could skip the middle man and go directly to the source. I would.

Depends on the job. But if I found out you're not the talent I thought I hired, I might do an end run around you and go straight to India myself. Hey. If you feel comfortable outsourcing your work to India, then I should stop paying you and do it, too.

Yup you could if you caught on but by that time I would be doing the same at 4 or 5 other companies you didn't know about. Hell even better just come above ground and start an outsourcing company offering the service to every company in that field.